Special Issue Call for Papers:

Aim and Scope
A Blockchain is a secured, shared and distributed ledger that facilitates the process of recording and tracking resources without the need of a centralized trusted authority. The technology is scalable and robust and all participant nodes provide resources in a fair manner, which alleviates many-to-one traffic flow bottlenecks. This technique decreases traffic delays and defeats errors due to a single point of failure. However, blockchain is still a nascent technology and as such there are challenges for the wide adoption of blockchain as a new enterprise and operational layer. These challenges are around scalability, interoperability, standards, privacy, security, governance and consensus mechanisms that need to be defined and validated for peer-to-peer computing. This special issue opens a forum to present the recent research work related to blockchain-based technologies, e.g. smart contracts, threat and attack models, and incentive mechanisms. Moreover, research on other aspects inherently present in blockchain-based applications, like the Internet of things, smart grid, e-health, logistics, etc. are also invited to this special issue.

Topics of Interest
This special issue seeks original unpublished papers focusing on theoretical analysis, emerging applications, novel system architecture construction and design, experimental studies, and social impacts of blockchain. Both review/survey papers and technical papers are encouraged. Topic areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

Blockchain theories and algorithms for P2P computing

Blockchain architectures, protocols and algorithms for P2P computing

Blockchain based security, privacy, and trust for P2P computing

Network and computing optimization in blockchains for P2P computing

Decentralization optimization in blockchain empowered P2P computing

Scalable consensus algorithms for P2P computing

Lightweight blockchain designs for P2P computing

Innovative applications and research in blockchain for P2P computing

Blockchain in information-centric networking

Blockchain in smart grid

Blockchain in artificial intelligence

Blockchain in networking and edge/fog/cloud technologies

Blockchain in e-health

Blockchain in 5G technologies

Blockchain in decentralized financing and payments

Blockchain in social networking

Blockchain in agriculture

Blockchain in autonomous vehicles

Blockchain in mobile cellular networks

Blockchain standardization

Blockchain tools, simulators and test-bed

Private blockchain systems

Decentralized storage in blockchain

Security, privacy, and trust of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies

Paper Submission
Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.

Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their manuscript. This online system offers easy and straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and supports a wide range of submission file formats. Manuscript should be submitted to: http://PPNA.edmgr.com. Choose “SI: Blockchain for Peer-to-Peer Computing” as the article type.